I am about one-third through Robert G. Picard’s 161-page research paper entitled: Journalism, Value Creation and the Future of News Organizations, so far he has been framing the issues, and I am waiting for the punchline. I am getting lots of new insights along the way, here is one, that will break your heart if [...]
This from the Huffington Post:
Traffic to the top ten newspaper blogs more than tripled over the last year, reaching 3.8 million in December. The implication from the data seems to be that the Internet audience is searching for meaning and analysis and a point of view, as opposed to mere breaking news. Whether newspaper blogs, [...]
So newspapers are in big trouble. We all know that. Could it be that the fault of failure belongs with newspaper executives; just like in the American steel and car industry they seem to be populated by risk adverse laggards who get large salaries, but lack vision. Okay, that’s not exactly how Robert G. Picard [...]
The recently released Harvard University based Nieman Reports, in its series of articles entitled Goodbye Gutenberg, almost unwittingly, by what it publishes here, reveals how far behind newspaper top thinkers appear to be and how much of this has appeared in the blogosphere, weeks, months before. No wonder we are saying Goodbye Gutenberg.
Still I am [...]
This according to the BBC:
People who upload their own films to video-sharing website YouTube will soon get a share of the ad revenue.
YouTube founder Chad Hurley confirmed to the BBC that his team was working on a revenue-sharing mechanism that would “reward creativity”.
The system would be rolled out in a couple of months, he said, [...]
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Leonard Witt is the Robert D. Fowler Distinguished Chair in Communication at Kennesaw State University and the chief blogger of PJNet. His academic interests include public and citizen journalism and how to get citizens' voices heard. He has spent most of his professional career as an award-winning journalist.